Hey Gasmi, well Sunday has come and gone, so it's time to talk about the bestest show about vampires, mind reading in the hospitality industry, climbing chain link fences for God, and at work romances for shapeshifters in the 9:00 Sunday time slot . Oh and not only that, but this week's episode shattered the record for most hand jobs on TV in an hour that had been held by Meet The Press for close to 30 years. Yep, it's time for True Blood, so make the jump and see what happened this week.
This week's episode starts with Sam and Daphne the World's Worst Waitress out in the woods. Daphne is telling Sam she knows all about his secret, and Sam is all like "secret? What secret? Nope, nope, nope, no secrets around here, and I definitely don't turn into a dog after work, that's for sure." Of course Sam is as about as good a liar as Daphne is a waitress, so all he manages to do is look shifty and guilty.
Daphne shows no real interest in listening to Sam, which is something we both have in common that I didn't know about, and proceeds to start walking through the woods taking her clothes off. Sam is following behind her gathering up all her clothes, because a tidy forest is a happy forest, when he comes up on what is just about the cutest deer in the world. Sam immediately says hi, because if Eddie Murphy can talk to the animals, how hard can it really be? The deer turns back into Daphne, which causes Sam to poop a brick, and we cut to the credits.
Okay, confession time. I love the opening credits for this show, mainly because of theme song, Bad, Bad Things by Jace Everett. You know since I've started doing recaps, I watch each episode about four times, and I almost never fast forward through the credits. Okay, that ends my fanboy gushing, on with the snark.
After the opening credits we go right back to Sam and Daphne the World's Worst Shapeshifting Waitress. Sam is freaking out, because turning into a collie is perfectly normal, but a deer? That's just freaky. Daphne tells Sam she saw him turn from a dog into Sam the other night at the lake. She thinks it's great because they have so much in common, so they can hang out and talk about the fun of taking animal form, oh and do a lot of serious humping too. Sam gets on board with this right away and they start necking which leads me to believe the talking part will come later, probably at about the same time they take a smoke break and shortly before Sam rolls over and goes to sleep.
Sadly for anyone who was hoping to watch a little quality shapeshifting cable neeked here, it just doesn't work out that way. Terry the cook and Arlene the waitress show up and the situation gets as awkward as it always does when some employees are in the woods getting ready to hump and some other company employees stumble in looking for a place to hump. What's that? You say that never happens where you work? God, your company picnics must really suck, huh?
Daphne the World's Worst Shapeshifting Waitress suddenly gets a case of the shys and takes off. Sam gets to make a little more awkward conversation with Terry and Arlene and then the head off into the woods to get a little something, something, and Sam gets to take his prize winning case of blue balls home and put them up on the mantle.
Over in Dallas Sookie catches up with Barry the mind reading bell hop in the hallway and Sookie is very excited because this is a whole new person in a whole new state she can annoy the poop out of. Sookie has decided that she and Barry should be telepath buddies, and exchange decoder rings. Barry treats Sookie like she's an annoying wackadoodle, which vaults him into the lead for being the smartest character on the show. Barry tells Sookie not to tell anyone about him and to just leave him alone, and then he heads off to work.
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Comments (4)
Hi everyone, I have never posted before, though I've been reading for about a year and have wanted to countless times. I just never wanted to take the time to register. But I had to today to give the recapper mad props for the Phish reference! Being a huge Phish fan and having traveled around with numerous bands back in the day for many years, I am always impressed by anyone who can pull off a joke about it, since so little people even know of the subcultures existence.
I am pretty addicted to this site, thanks to all who recap for taking the time to rewatch and actually think about some of these horrible shows(not this one, True Blood is actually a great show, more speaking of the reality crap that we all love to hate)
Thanks tvgasm for filling some of the void for me(time I should be studying, doing work while at work, or at the gym, etc)
Many of your recappers have a sense of humor much like mine, a tad on the sick, cynical, and smartass side, and not always appreciated by the more sensitive(uptight) types. SO many thanks to all of you who make this happen!
I, too, think Sookie is the most annoying self absorbed self righteous chicks ever! She is the type of girl that makes me not want to hang out with girls! Shes a super crappy friend to Tara too. It's too bad Tara is so alone and has such low self esteem that she actually thinks Sookie gives a shit about her.
How much cooler would it have been is Jason Stackhouse had been the one chained up and tormented by the vampires? Leave Lafayette alone! He's pretty much the only person I don't hate on this show. But Jason takes the cake mostly because he reminds me of real live people I see everyday here in the midwest...
1 of 4 | Posted by flybsbgirl | Posted on July 25, 2009 1:40 PM
HBO has basically ruined Charlaine Harris' awesomely funny and slightly sick book series.
Read the novels and you'll see that Sookie was meant to be a lovable Southern quirk, and not this self-absorbed, annoying nympho. Poor Sookie.
Maybe I'm just a sap who should stop reading and just watch TV quietly.
Great recap!
2 of 4 | Posted by hoover damn | Posted on July 26, 2009 6:05 PM
I have to make a real effort to separate the books, from the series since they are so different. I love the books and at first it really bugged me that there were so many differences. Now, not so much. Sookie really isn't annoying in the books though.
3 of 4 | Posted by handymanda | Posted on July 27, 2009 12:54 PM
stop wasting your time and energy on trashing the show. if you hate it so much, why are you reading a recap for a random episode in the middle of the second season haha.and i love sookie!
4 of 4 | Posted by zensavage | Posted on August 3, 2009 11:57 AM